Yamban

Veda

From yan ("pile") +‎ ban ("life").

IPA^(key): /ˈjamban/

Rhymes: -amban

yamban

yamban

chaos, disorder, anarchy
welban ghur yamban.

Welban ghor yamban.
Order over chaos.

I was quite proud of this pair of words, welban and yamban. They are, essentially, like yin and yang, but they derive from two different words for the same thing: a grouping of things. The nature of the grouping, and how it's carried out, gives us the word "unordered pile" or "ordered pile", and from that, generally, "chaos" and "order". The two words that gave rise to these—wel and yan—are themselves used as plural markers for Veda's daughter languages. It worked out beautifully. It's the type of thing I rarely get to do, because I rarely have control of the whole of a language family from the beginning—or if I do, you never see either the proto-language or the daughter languages. This language family, though, was fully executed—and done for a property that virtually no one would pay attention to (or, more accurately, used in a property where no one who actually uses it pays any attention to the languages). Kind of a shame, but at least I can enjoy the languages. -David J. Peterson 03:15, 11 February 2020 (PST)